Become a groupie!

Posted by Simon Bedford (Marketing and Touring Manager, Hoipolloi)

Good evening, ladies and gentleman blog readers. It's been a little while since I posted on here as I've handed you over to the very capable hands of my assistant David (and as he's got a first in English from Cambridge University he's far more qualified to entertain you with witty wordplay than I am!).

It's been a hectic week for everyone here at Hoipolloi.

The Doubtful Guest has been running at Cambridge Arts Theatre since Wednesday (and with three performances left, you haven't missed your opportunity to see it here just yet!). And as its our home town, we've been busy making new friends and entertaining guests.

Anyway, my reason for posting is to alert you to a brand new tool on the blog - your opportunity to become a Hoipolloi groupie! By signing up (using the link on the right-hand side), you'll be able to follow this blog closely and be automatically updated when we put up a new posting.

And this isn't the only way you can follow our activites! Why not click here to sign-up to the free Hoipolloi mailing list to receive regular emails from us or join either the Hoipolloi facebook group or the Hugh Hughes Appreciation Society.

Tonight we've got a potentially riotous company meal at CB2 (where you can also find our Hoipolloi photo exhibition) and then The Doubtful Guest moves on to Leeds (from 28 Oct to 1 Nov) and Cardiff (5 to 8 November).

Wishing you a fantastic weekend!

Fresher faces in Cambridge

Posted by David Ralfe (Marketing & Admin. Assistant, Hoipolloi)

On my way home from the pub the other night, I popped into my local chip shop for some deep-fried carbohydrates, only to find this usually reputable establishment over-run with drunken school children. Upon closer inspection, said school children turned out to be rather larger than one would expect. They weren’t children at all, they were students dressed as children. Freshers’ week is upon us.

Now explain this one to me: you leave school, you leave home, you go to university in a hyperactive flurry of grown-upness... and the first thing you’re expected to do is put your school uniform back on for a Freshers’ Week “School Disco”.

There are rather a lot of students in Cambridge, making it completely normal to stumble across groups of people in silly costumes wandering the streets late at night. Pirate costumes are a popular choice in my experience, and I couldn’t approve more of such a wholesome and hearty theme. But school uniform in this post Hit Me Baby One More Time-era?

Perhaps I’m jealous. I’ve just graduated and I’m still getting to grips with being on the wrong side of the university/real-world barrier. But I’ll be returning to university spheres, for the Anglia Ruskin University Freshers’ Fayre tomorrow and the Cambridge University one in a couple of weeks.

Hoipolloi are looking forward to meeting lots of Cambridge’s newest residents. We hope that you’ll come to our stall and say hello, and that we’ll see lots of students at the Cambridge Arts Theatre for The Doubtful Guest between 15 to 18 October.

The company started re-rehearsals for The Doubtful Guest in Plymouth today and I’ll be blogging from the rehearsal room next week. In the meantime, don’t forget to book tickets for Plymouth, Southampton, Cambridge, Leeds or Cardiff! All the tour dates and box office details are here. Book soon!